Thursday, April 14, 2005

Bolt.com. Right now there are 17, 827 people online over at the Bolt.com ‘hang out’. Where categories range from Movies & TV to Sex & Dating, Gaming, Music, Style, Sports, American Idol, AIM Icons, Quotes, Ringtones, Game Revolution, Quizzes, Horoscopes, and TAG. According to their about: ”... Bolt is the #1 youth hangout on the Web, bringing together 4.5 million young people each month to exchange ideas about everything from final exams to the war in Iraq. Bolt is the basement, park, college dorm, sidewalk café or the 7-11 parking lot – it’s a place where young people come to meet others and talk about everything. Authenticity is at the core of all that we do…” Bolt is located in Soho, NYC and is led by Aaron Cohen, CEO. They recently released a study on ‘Youth Happiness’ (pdf file link) with the subtext that it “Turns out High School and College Kids Are Actually Pretty Happy” with 67% of 15-22 year olds counting themselves as happy to very happy. Who knew? Be scared, be very scared if you don't know anything about this group.  Demographics is NOT about the oldsters... we know them - - hell, we are them.  It is about what is coming our way... a very interesting but quite different new breed. RSS feeds brought to you by Userplane Apps: Live communication applications powering the world's leading online communities. [The Social Software Weblog] 9:20:53 PM    comment [] Forget IPOs--Sell out instead. The initial public offering, that cultural landmark of the late 90s, is clearly not the way to go these days. In the first quarter of 2005, seventy nine venture backed companies... [News.blog: Workplace (CNET News.com)] 9:15:39 PM    comment [] Surveillance Works Both Ways [Edu_RSS] Very cool idea - - watching the watchers 9:10:20 PM    comment [] The Physical Attractiveness Phenomena [Edu_RSS] a professor with a lifetime career in documenting that more attractive people get more attention, etc.  Gee, who would have thunk it? 8:07:39 PM    comment [] Starbucks seeks to patent loyalty card. A patent attorney and his donkey [The Register] 7:43:10 PM    comment []

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